Electrical and Instrumentation Tech

Career Opportunity:

The successful Electrical and Instrumentation Technician will be required to repair, maintain, and install plant electrical, electronic and instrumentation equipment. Employee must function at high levels of quality and efficiency while maintaining the highest standard of safety. Good communication skills are a necessity. Employee must follow standard work procedures and safe work practices/procedures. Extensive experience dealing with basic industrial safety topics such as lockout, fall protection, confined space entry, personal protective equipment, and guarding is required.

Schedule: Rotating Shift

What you need to succeed:

• Manufacturing and/or Mill experience are strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of computer programs using Windows based operating systems.
• Will need to develop a good general working knowledge of the location of all power sources for all mill equipment.
• Must be able to demonstrate the ability to identify voltage levels using a digital multi-meter.
• Must have 2 to 4 years of documented experience in most the following:
  • Able to work safely around electrical and other Industrial equipment
  • Working knowledge of all hand tools and possess the tools necessary to perform the tasks
  • Be familiar with the uses of a Multimeter
  • Working knowledge of Microprocessors
  • Familiar with AC and DC motor controls
  • Familiar with level, flow, and pressure control instrumentation
  • Must be able to read and interpret blueprints and electrical schematics
  • Basic Pneumatics
  • Basic Hydraulics
  • PLC & DCS ladder logic
  • HS diploma or GED equivalent
  • Verifiable Electrical and Instrument experience
  • Good understanding of basic math for electrical/electronics
  • Willing to work a rotating shift scheduled and unscheduled overtime as needed

Physical Requirements:

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like; using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.

Environmental Conditions to which incumbent is exposed:

• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes (i.e. warehouses, machine floor, covered loading docks, garages, etc.)
• The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather.
• The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places or exposure to chemicals.